Glen Cooper, a member of the BYU History Department from 2004 to 2014, is a well-published scholar in the history of Islamic and Greek science. He has also taught at Claremont, and most recently has been a research fellow of ancient Greek medicine at the Einstein Foundation, Freie Universität, Berlin. He has been offered a visiting position in Tehran (on hold). His research interests and teaching experience span Hellenistic and Byzantine Greek, Islamic, and Medieval European history and civilizations, especially scientific thought and institutions, and the legacy of Islam to the West. He has a special interest in exchanges between these civilizations, particularly in medieval Baghdad, Spain, and Sicily, and in Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations. He earned a Ph.D. in History of Islamic Science and Civilization from Columbia University, and was an original member of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at BYU, and founding editor of the Graeco-Arabic Sciences and Philosophy monograph series (BYU Press).
Classes Taught at BYU
- Hist 200: Historians’ Craft
- Hist 201: World Civilization to 1500
- Hist 238: Ancient Near East to 330 BC
- Hist 239: Ancient Near East, 330 BC - 640 AD
- Hist 240: Middle East History to 1800
- Hist 249: Byzantine Empire and Civilization, 330 to 1461 AD
- Hist 291: History of Science
- Hit 490: Capstone Research Seminar | Topics: Jewish, Islamic, Byzantine, Medieval, Iberian (Andalusian) History; Crusades; Medicine; Science.
- Phil 210, Phil 211: Science and Civilization I and II
Taught Elsewhere
- Jewish History
- Modern Middle East
- History of Medicine
- History of Medieval Europe